Switches
Conditions split across people
Everyone holds a piece of the solution. Without all four it won't open. The most collaborative step there is.
Why it works
People don't hate team building. They hate seeing the script.
Most exercises fail because everyone knows what's expected of them, and knowing that kills it before it starts.
A hunt built on real facts about the company changes the posture: it gets solved, not participated in. And when someone cracks the clue nobody else saw, the cohesion arrives on its own.
Solve it together or not at all
The steps are built so nobody can carry them alone. Somebody has to contribute what the others don't know.
No facilitator, no room
Nobody to hire and no need to block the big meeting room all morning. The hunt runs itself.
Fits in a morning
Forty minutes to two hours depending on how far you take it. It slots into onboarding or an offsite.
In three steps
How to build the team challenge
One afternoon of prep covers every run you'll ever do.
Decide what should happen
Should they meet each other, learn the company, get moving? That decides whether the hunt runs through the office or the city.
Spread the knowledge out
Write steps whose answer only one specific person holds. That's what forces them to talk to each other.
One link per team
Split the group and give each team the same link. Your dashboard shows how far each one has got.
Full example
A seven-step team challenge, start to finish
An onboarding morning for a group of new starters. Adapt it to your company.
- VideoStep 1
Welcome — now get to work
Thirty seconds of someone from leadership explaining the challenge. Short, and free of corporate voice.
- TriviaStep 2
How much do you know about this place?
Five questions about the company: the founding year, where the name came from, who the first client was.
- GPSStep 3
Find the spot
The step unlocks at a specific point in the building or the neighbourhood. They have to ask their way there.
- RiddleStep 4
Ask somebody who works here
The answer isn't online — one person on the team has it. They have to go and talk to them.
- SequenceStep 5
Get the order right
Five company milestones to put in chronological order. Solved by arguing, not by guessing.
- SwitchesStep 6
Four switches
Each team member holds a different condition on a slip of paper. Only all four together open it.
- CodeStep 7
The final combination
Using the digits each step handed out, they assemble the code that closes the challenge.
- Final screen
Challenge complete
You took 1h 14m. Breakfast has been waiting in the big room for ten minutes.
Idea bank
Step ideas for team building
There are 13 types. These are the ones that force the team to talk.
Riddle
Answers that live in people
Facts you can't search for — you have to ask a colleague. Better at breaking ice than any round of introductions.
Sequence
Order the milestones
Company history, project phases. It gets solved out loud, by debate.
GPS
Cover the office or the area
Gets them away from their desks. In onboarding, they also learn where everything is.
Trivia
Company culture
Five questions about the place. A way to smuggle in information nobody usually reads.
Pause
A regroup point
A screen that makes them wait for the whole team before carrying on.
Variants
By format
Onboarding
Around the building, with questions about the company and the people. New starters learn the place by walking it.
Offsite or annual event
Around the host city with teams competing. Two hours and a finishing time per team.
Remote team
No GPS, with a call open. Logic steps and split knowledge — it works the same across time zones.
Project wrap-up
A short hunt built from the last few months' running jokes. Forty minutes before lunch.
Reviews
What users are saying
Brilliant idea. I got muddled with the order of the steps at first, until I saw you just drag them, and after that I had it done in twenty minutes. I used it for our team building and everyone loved it. The shake step was the funniest thing we've ever done in a meeting.
The office Secret Santa is usually the most generic thing in the world. This year I turned it into a treasure hunt and everyone asked who had made 'the treasure hunt'. The secret code step had them struggling for 20 minutes lol
I created a route around Valencia for my friends who were visiting. I published it in Explore and it turns out more than 200 people have already played it. Didn't expect that at all. It's amazing to see so many people enjoying your work.
Who is it for? That is the whole decision.
The mechanism is identical in both: the same challenges, the same steps, the same ending. What changes is who is going to solve it.
Identical in both
- All 13 instruments, none held back
- Unlimited steps, no expiry
- You write the ending: letter, photo or video
- Link and QR ready the moment you publish
The only thing that changes
Public
FREE
no cost · no expiry
For anyone
Everyone can see it: it goes up on Explore and on Google, and anyone can take it on. For a tour of your city, an escape room or a challenge for your followers. If only one person knows the answers, it doesn't belong here.
- It goes up on Explore, so people find you
- Its own page in Explore, with ratings from those who solve it
Private
$9.99
one-time · per challenge
For someone specific
Your partner, a birthday, your family, your team. Only whoever has your link can open it: it appears in no listing and no search engine.
- Schedule the exact date and time it opens
- Optional password, if you want another door
- No email asked of whoever receives it
No subscription · private is paid when you publish
It's for your team and carries internal company facts, so it's private: out of the catalogue and behind a password.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
There's no limit. The usual shape is teams of four to six, each given the same link.
When does the next intake start?
Build the challenge once and reuse it every time. One afternoon of prep.
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